Goro Nishida, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Goro Nishida

Japanese mathematician

Date of Birth: 18-Sep-1943

Place of Birth: ĹŚsaka Prefecture, Japan

Date of Death: 02-Jun-2014

Profession: mathematician, university teacher

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Goro Nishida

  • Goro Nishida (?? ??, Goro Nishida, born 18 September 1943 in Osaka – 2 June 2014) was a Japanese mathematician.
  • He was a leading member of the Japanese school of homotopy theory, following in the tradition of Hiroshi Toda.Nishida received his Ph.D.
  • from Kyoto University in 1973, after spending the 1971-72 academic year at the University of Manchester in England.
  • He then became a professor at Kyoto University.
  • His proof in 1973 of Michael Barratt's conjecture (that positive-degree elements in the stable homotopy ring of spheres are nilpotent) was a major breakthrough: following Frank Adams' solution of the Hopf invariant one problem, it marked the beginning of a new global understanding of algebraic topology. His contributions to the field were celebrated in 2003 at the NishidaFest in Kinosaki,followed by a satellite conference at the Nagoya Institute of Technology; the proceedings were published in Geometry and Topology's monograph series.
  • In 2000 he was the leading organizer for a concentration year at the Japan–US Mathematics Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Nishida's earliest work grew out of the study of infinite loop spaces; his first paper (in 1968, on what came eventually to be known as the Nishida relations) accounts for interactions between Steenrod operations and Kudo–Araki (Dyer–Lashof) operations.
  • Some of his later work concerns a circle of ideas surrounding the Segal conjecture, transfer homomorphisms, and stable splittings of classifying spaces of groups.
  • The ideas in this series of papers have by now grown into a rich subfield of homotopy theory; it continues today in (for example) the theory of p-compact groups.

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